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statuscake.com/ is like Pingdom but free

KeyCDN is half the price of Amazon CloundFront ($0.04/GB vs $0.085/GB) with lots of bells and whistles keycdn.com/?a=7826

“My site, my wife’s sites, my mother and father-in-laws sites” – Nerdy family @LewAyotte

If you don’t want to deal with server complexities yourself go with a managed WordPress host like @wpengine and @getpantheon

Deliver all the things from Nginx with Subs Filters in CloudFront for WordPress

Use EasyEngine
– Nginx
– PHP FPM
– Maria DB
– Redis Object Caching
– EWWW for Image Optimization
– CloudFront CDN

General causes for a Slow TTFB:
– Misconfigured server
– Bad plugins
– Bad themes

One.com offers $0.25 a month hosting. Interesting.

Nobody likes to stare at a blank screen waiting for your website to download.

Time to First Byte is the most important performance metric, how fast can the server deliver the page.

CDN
– Push service: You upload assets to the CDN
– Pull service: Pulls assets from your server as they are requested

CDN
– Network of servers around the world that cache static files closer to your visitors
– Jetpack Photon (CDN-ish but also free)

HTML5 Boiler Plate nginx server configs for better server performance github.com/h5bp/server-configs-n…

HTML5 Boiler Plate Apache Server Configs for better server performance github.com/h5bp/server-configs-a…

Cache static content:
Once a browser downloads a static file it can hold on to it for later to save requests back to the server.

Keep-Alive header
– Keeps a connection open between the browser and server
– Saves time
– Most sites have these enabled by default

Time to first byte – the amount of time it takes your server to send a browser the first byte of your page.
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Google Page Insights can also help. More user friendly. Not as granular.

Russell Heimlich